Facebook users bypass misinformation rules with anti-vaccine profile frames

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Three months after the corporation ban have prohibited vaccine misinformation, the CNBC has found evidence of people using one of Facebook’s own features to jump its policies. The company allows users to create custom boundaries for their profile images they can then download so other people can use them freely. The idea behind these is to allow individuals to show support to a cause. But the boundaries found by CNBC and Engadget express the types of Facebook anti-vaccination claims have tried to prevent themselves from spreading.

For example, Facebook explicitly prohibits the content suggesting that it is safer to get sick of COVID-19 than to be vaccinated against it. Yet, many of the executives include the messaging of the company for properly. “I hope my immune system, not a shot,” says one of the borders. Another cheek on I am Charlie, a slogan that came out of Charlie Hebdo shooting in 2015 and the theories of the plot 5G who circulated at the beginning of the pandemic. “I am a vaccine for 5G,” he says. Roughly translated, “I am vaccinated for 5g.”

When CNBC reached out on Facebook, he confirmed that executives violated his policies and worked to remove them from the platform. When writing this article, it is always possible to add the boundaries to your photo of your profile. For the most part, they are also trivial to find. It’s not clear how long the images are around, or how many people have added them to their profile images. However, like other types of anti-vaccine content on social media, it appears only a handful of people formulated many frames.

“We are actively promovering profile frameworks that encourage people to share their support for CVIV-19 vaccines and eliminating all that breaks our rules,” said a Facebook spokesman in Engadget. “More than five million people in the world have used one of these profile frameworks to express vaccine support, and more than half of the people in the United States on Facebook have already seen someone uses the One of our profile frameworks encouraging vaccine support. “

The company also reported to us to a post-the -head blog published last Tuesday, the use of pro-vaccine profile frames. According to Facebook, more than 5 million users have added the images to their profile images. It also affirms that more than 50% of Facebook users in the United States have seen a profile with executives developed with the help of the Department of Health and Centers of the United States and Disease Control and Prevention Centers .

Update 4:31 HE: Facebook has removed the two profile frames highlighted by Engadget after contacting the company.